Hundred Collection (page 7)

Quatre Bras Casualty
BATTLE OF QUATRE BRAS - in the course of the battle the duke of Brunswick, an officer in the Allied army, is shot

START OF 100 YEARS WAR
Edward III sends his challenge to Philip VI de Valois thus starting the 100 Years War; the Bishop of Lincoln & others wear an eyepatch until they have performed a gallant deed

Man with Eye-Glass
A man of revolutionary Paris peers scornfully through his eyeglass : a hundred years later he will sport an equally affected monocle

ANGSTROM (1814 - 1874)
ANDERS JOHAN ANGSTROM Swedish astronomer & physicist, gave his name to a unit of length one hundred millionth of a centimetre

Queen Esther
Despite being Jewish, Esther is chosen as his queen by Ahasuerus, the ruler whose lands ran from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces

Coin Presses at Mint
The coining presses are capable of striking coins of any denomination at the rate of one hundred and twenty per minute

100-Passenger Air-Liners
Todays air-liners will seem tiny compared with the huge passenger carriers of tomorrow, which will carry as many as One Hundred people, at speeds of 350 km/h !

Dancing at the Kit-Kat
Dancers and diners at the Kit- Kat Club in the Haymarket, London : membership costs you seven guineas - equivalent to several hundred pounds today

Scenery for 100 Kisses
A HUNDRED KISSES/ LES CENTS BAISERS Scenery design showing the Prince and Princess dancing outside the castle

Advert / Sirop Delabarre
A medieval youth reads from a blackboard the virtues of Sirop Delebarre, even though it will not be invented for five hundred years or so

Carriage on Rail Wagon
In the earliest days of the rail, a private carriage might be carried on a rail wagon - anticipating todays motorail service by a hundred years !

Sleeper Awakes (Paul)
Graham wakes after sleeping for two hundred years

Sluys / Sluis 1739
View of Sluys, scene of the famous sea battle of 1340, as it was four hundred years after the event. A map of the towns fortifications is visible in the foreground

Moorgate Mission
Our London poor - a tea to seven hundred tramps and beggars in Moorgate Street Hall

Battle of Ligny
THE HUNDRED DAYS Battle of LIGNY Napoleon defeats Blucher

London, Future
Mansion House Corner, in the City of the London, as it will be a hundred years from now, with roof-top aeroplane stations, the sky loud with the sound of flying machines

Birds / Robin
(Erithacus rubecula) in a suburban garden not a hundred miles from our Library

Saint Joan of Arc, French national heroine
Saint Joan of Arc, or the Maid of Orleans, French national heroine, and one of the patron saints of France. Depicted here seeing a vision of her future

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